Sentence examples for spreading riots from inspiring English sources

With these spreading riots and murders, a canary has died in the coal mine of the West's relations with the Muslim world, and that world's relations with us.

One night, after hearing of spreading riots on the news and taking calls from Somali friends as they are being burnt out of their shops, he hears a crowd gathering outside his own store.

Once the prospects for economic regeneration and the behaviour of the police were taken off the table, the post-riots debate in 1981 degenerated into a debate over more military equipment for the police and the influence of television in spreading "copycat" riots.

As the crisis spread, riots over high prices broke out in poor nations across the globe.

Television pictures spread the riots from one suburb to another.

The last summer of riots, spreading from city to city, also coincided with the first difficult years of a new Conservative-led government.

The relationship between mayhem and social media was brought into focus this week as violent riots spreading across London were coordinated via Twitter and Blackberry messages.

As soon as word of his dismissal had spread, soldiers rioted across Mogadishu.

A few days later, as trouble spread, a riot-police tear-gas grenade ended up—under unexplained circumstances inside a prayer hall in Clichy.

Mr. Abhisit spent the next two days in a war room inside a military compound, directing the military and the police in effort to contain the spreading protests and rioting.

They, like most other people, had assumed that what happened in Tottenham was a local incident, there wasn't much anticipation of the rioting spreading.